Managing to get more than one movie out this weekend. Look at me go.Actress Sarah Polley creates a documentary to explore the circumstances of her birth and parentage from the perspectives of everyone involved, from her parents and siblings to her mother's friends and contemporaries in order to examine the ways stories shape and are shaped by the people who live them.
It does devolve a little into a meta rabbit hole, especially at the end, but it remains a thoroughly engrossing documentary that seems so personal and yet universal. The circumstances may be different, but who hasn't gone back to relatives as an adult to hear about family drama or gossip they didn't understand as children? I think we all love to know where we came from and about the people who are in many ways strangers to us while still being as close as half our DNA.
Stories We Tell is currently streaming on Tubi.
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